MATRIXSYNTH: Tuesday, May 2, 2006


Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Salvatore Martirano on Chroniques de la Mao


Click here for a post on Salvatore Martirano on Chroniques de la Mao. "I have just put on my blog an astonishing machine of Salvatore Martirano - American composer born on January 12, 1927 in Yonkers, New York, dead on November 17, 1995 - which I had taken in photograph in 1981 at the time of the international festival of Electronic Music, Video and Computer Art" The post includes an mp3 link, more shots and a link to The SAL-MAR Construction. Fascinating stuff. BTW, you might recognize the SAL-MAR Construction from this post.

Update via deb7680:

"Thanks Matrix. Attention, the MP3 is not Salvatore Martirano but duet HplanK with synths (RSF and Ems Synthi Aks), guitar and computers (Apple II and first IBM PC) which I created in 1981. I evoked Hplank because it is the festival of the Plan K in Brussels which gave me the idea of the name of HplanK.
For the meetings, since 1971, I work in the arts centres and as a critic musical in the newspapers. It is my work. I was likely to meet a great number of composers, Pierre Boulez, XĂ©nakis, Pierre Henry Morton Subotnick, musicians like John Mc Laughlin, David Murray, Soft Machine, Cure, Jean-Luc Ponty, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sun Ra, etc...
See this : http://www.deb7680.com/documentation/pierrehenry.pdf"

BTW, if you haven't already, check out Chroniques de la Mao for a lot more on these subjects.

More Synth Action on YouTube

Brain Damage - New Flickr Shot



flickr by lukas_y2k . Pink Floyd tribute band. Curious how that Korg X5D sounds. : )

Jen and microKorg - New Flickr Shot

flickr by simulacreant. According to the caption the microKorg was an anniversary gift and she's smiling about it. Now that is cool. : )

Korg Cake

This one sent my way via fred. Check out the cable. : ) Title link takes you to more shots.

Roland CMU810 on YouTube


Uploaded on Apr 30, 2006 f mass

"Roland CMU810 hooked up with a triplet of Roland System sequencers. The CMU810 is part of a wider Apple IIe/Roland Compu-Music (CMU800+CMU810) system that I finally finished to collect!"


This one in via fmasseti. "I have managed to hook up the roland cmu810 (part of a wider apple IIe/CMU800 set up) with my roland system 100m sequencing section." The Roland CMU810 is basically a Roland SH-101 minus sequencer and arpeggiator, but adds CV in. You can find more on the CMU810 on Sequencer.de and SOS. Note the image on Sequencer.de appears to be the CMU800.

Update: I sent this into AH. Brandon Daniel noted it also had some features of the MC-202. "But it also appears to have the LFO delay of the 202... with the noise
from the 101, but the 202's single waveform LFO. So somewhere between a
101 and 202, I guess."

Rhodes Chroma Poly-aftertouch

Title link takes you to a new addition to the Rhodes Chroma site - the original documentation from Fender on the Rhodes Chroma Poly-aftertouch. BTW, if you haven't checked out the Rhodes Chroma site, do it. It's probably the most comprehensive and active sites dedicated to a given synth.

"The Pressure Sensor is a fully programmable, polyphonic, after-touch, pressure sensor. With it, the performer can effect one or more notes, independently of each other, in a number of programmable ways. The degree of the effect is controlled by the amount of finger pressure applied to one or more keys after they have been struck. The Pressure Sensor can be used to bend the pitch, add vibrato, control sweep speeds, accelerate attack times, accelerate decay times, modulate wave shape width, add or subtract brilliance, and/or control loudness. Any one effect or a combination of several effects may be used in a program. The Pressure Sensor is truly polyphonic; only the note sounding from each pressed key will be affected. Also, the effect can be latched if the key or keys are released rapidly. For example, if a note is bent sharp and the sustain pedal is depressed and the key is quickly release; the sustaining note will stay at the bent pitch."

Unfortunately most Chromas do not have polyphonic aftertouch. Even without, it is one of the most expressive synthesisers ever made.

SCI Remote Prophet

Just a couple of shots pulled from this auction. You could strap this on for some keytar control of you Prophet 5. "This is a remote controller keyboard for the Prophet 5. It interfaces with the later Rev. 3 machines and allows you to strap it on and control your Prophet."

Electro-Music 2006 - June 2-4, 2006 Philidelphia

Title link takes you to more info.

"The scope of this festival is very broad, covering all aspects of electro-music, experimental electronic music, including circuit bending, computer music, electro-jazz, modular synthesis, musique concrete, improvisation, noodles (generated or automatic music and algorithmic composition), multi-media, visual art and much more. The focus will be on participant involvement, sharing, community development, audience education, and great music."

ASM-1 at AHNE 2006


Apparrently this beauty was at AHNE 2006. It's an ASM-1. Title link takes you to the ASM-1 homepage.

AHNE 2006 on Electro-Music.com

Title link takes you to the image set.

Dave Smith Mono Evolver - New Flickr Shots

flickr by nourogg. Title link takes you to more including a nice one with a Indigo Redback (click through to the right).

Hartmann Neurons For Sale


Update via the comments worth noting. But the keyboard version is just too damn sexy.

"We have been servicing them since we we're the U.S. Distributor for a while but only to our customers. But while there are still some spare parts around but some things there are not. So while the insides are essentially just a computer and a sound card you're still gonna have some problems depending on what knob/switch/display you break.

You should pick up a VS instead, they have almost almost every feature the hardware did and the controller is simple enough to probably be repaired by anybody. They were selling in Germany for like $150 for a while."

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction. Details below. Note that there are 10 available with a Buy it Now of $3,832.00. As usual, I no affiliation with this sale, just saving it for the archives of synth history... Via Melissa's Blog.

"Neuron's synthesis engine is powered by the technology found in neural networks (for more on this, see the section "Neural Networks"). It uses models as the basis for sound generation. In conceptual terms, these models are comparable to samples, and they are derived by analyzing audio samples. This means that in principle, any auditory event can provide the raw material for creating and processing sound in Neuron. It ships with some 100 of these models on its internal hard disk. Though this is a huge store of sound design resources, you are free to analyze audio resources (samples) of your own, using our proprietary ModelMaker software, and archive them in the form of user models. These models contain the actual sound as well as the parameter sets that were captured during neural analysis. Parameter sets are subdivided in up to three levels, and they may be manipulated via the resynators' sticks. That makes Neuron the first synthesizer offering dynamic parameter assignment tailored specifically to the sound that you select for processing.

The Human Interface

The ergonomic design of many modern electronic music instruments comes courtesy of company founder Axel Hartmann's creative urges. His experiences with musicians and manufacturers flowed into the operating and handling principles that help make Neuron so special.

The Neuron's extraordinary user interface is a crucial feature alongside its innovative sound generation system. Our philosophy dictates that every Hartmann instrument is easy to understand and use, that it handles intuitively, and that makes discovering new technology fun. To live up to that promise, we were compelled to invent several new control features. The tactile experience of generating sound via Neuron is something entirely apart from what users have encountered with conventional synthesizers.

The control features feel like what they are - different, unprecedented. Powerful yet subtle sound-sculpting tools, they throw the window to a new and unexplored sonic vista wide open. Starting with great legacy sounds, the musician ventures forth on a quest for unknown sonic treats by cutting, tucking, snipping and sewing these time-tested sounds. He can do this with the delicate touch of a neurosurgeon or the harsh hand of a butcher. The intelligent Snapshot function lets him take pictures of every and any stop along his auditory journey. This lets him backtrack should he get lost or want to return to a "Kodak Moment".

All dynamic parameters are controlled via rotary encoders with an infinite control range. The displays and indicator panels provide direct visual reference to the settings for the current program even when switching sounds.

The technical specifications of Neuron

Template driven Multi-Component Particle Transform Synthesis with realtime controllable synthesis model parameters | ANN (Artificial Neural Network) controlled adaptive sound analysis for the parametric transformation of musical monophonic and polyphonic sounds | Glide | 2 Resynators with 3 parameter layers per Scape/Sphere, stick recording function, 1 ADSR modulation envelope per Resynator, 1 amp envelope per Resynator (ADSR), 1 definable envelope (4 levels/4 times, also definable as pitch envelope) | Slicer for the generation of multi-dimensional, cyclic modulation | Silver unit with multi-mode filter with 3 parameter levels and a maximum of 3 ADSR envelopes (1 per parameter level), 2 Part Multi-FX processor (1 x Time FX / 1 x Frequency FX) | Surround unit with Stick-control (recordable) | Extra high-end delay (with tap function) and reverb

32bit internal signal path | digital signal processing with 32bit/64bit | floating point precision | high speed-CPU | 256 MB internal RAM | 20GB hard Disk

3 Cross-X-displays with Stick-controller and 4 back-lit LCD displays with 3 digit parameter level and 8 digit parameter name | 1 Control Center with 2x16 digit back-lit LCD display, X/Y stick and endless dial (encoder) with push/enter function | 12 endless wheels (encoders) with visual displays, 6 endless dials (encoders) | Controller unit with self centering, bi-directional stick-controller for pitch and modulation control (definable) | 1 definable endless-wheel (encoder) with visual display, 1 definable endless-dial (encoder) | Master volume dial | Large, backlit central on/off switch at rear of instrument | 5 octave (61 key) velocity sensitive, lightly weighted keyboard with channel aftertouch

Units shipping with app. 250 models / 200 sounds in memory / room for more then 200 setups | 4 times multimode | Amount of voices is dependent on the chosen neural synthesis model (up to 24) | Memory assignment and organization is achieved using a 10 button keyboard with up/down and 10's hold | Snapshot function for easy access to cache and instant saving and recall of edited sounds

Freely definable outputs (max. 6x Mono / max. 3 Stereo / 5.1 Surround) | Midi In / Out / Thru, USB port for external backup devices (CD-writers, Hard-Drives, Memory sticks etc.) and connection to a network | S/PDIF In / Out (digital, 44.1 kHz / 24bit), Stereo In, headphone connector, sustain pedal, freely definable switch and continuous controller connection

Power consumption: 250W | Dimensions: 952mm (w) x 98mm (h) x 373mm (d) | Weight: 17.5kg"

tribe striped bare - New Flickr Shot


flickr by gentle bakemono. Stripped Electribe SX.
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